Starring Roberto Benigni as Ivo Salvini, a madcap poetic figure newly released from a mental institution, the character is a combination of La stradas Gelsomina, Pinocchio, and Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.

* The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is first published complete in book form in Italy.

The Adventures of Pinocchio (, ; ) is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence.

It is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio ( pronounced in Italian ), an animated marionette, and his poor father, a woodcarver named Geppetto.

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a story about an animated puppet, a talking cricket, and boys who turn into donkeys and other fairy tale devices that would be familiar to a reader of Alice in Wonderland or the Brothers Grimm.

After the puppet is finished, Geppetto teaches him to walk and Pinocchio runs out the door and away into the town.

He is caught by a Carabiniere but when people say that Geppetto dislikes children, the carabineer assumes that Pinocchio has been mistreated and imprisons Geppetto.

Pinocchio heads off to school, but on the way he is distracted by some music and crowds and he follows the sounds until he finds himself in a crowd of people, all congregated to see the Great Marionette Theater.

During the performance, the puppets Harlequin, Punch, and Signora Rosaura see Pinocchio and cry out, " It is our brother Pinocchio!

The Blue-haired Fairy sends a falcon and a poodle to rescue Pinocchio, and she calls in three famous doctors to tell her if Pinocchio is dead.

The first two ( an owl and a crow ) are uncertain, but the third — the Talking Cricket that Pinocchio presumably killed earlier — knows that Pinocchio is fine and tells the marionette that he has been disobedient and hurt his father.

The Blue-haired Fairy tries to make Pinocchio take medicine, saying he will soon die if he doesn't, but he refuses to take it, despite promising to if he is given sugar, which the Blue-haired Fairy gives him.

The Fairy explains to Pinocchio that it is his lies that are making his nose grow long, then calls in a flock of woodpeckers to chisel down his nose.

The judge ( as is the custom in Catchfools ) sends Pinocchio to prison for his foolishness for four months.

Concluding that it is dead, Pinocchio begins to step over it, but the serpent suddenly rises up and hisses at the marionette, toppling him over onto his head.

While sneaking into a farmer's yard to take some grapes, Pinocchio is caught in a weasel trap.

Believing the Blue-haired Fairy died from sorrow, he weeps until a friendly pigeon offers to give him a ride to the seashore, where Geppetto is building a boat to go out and search for Pinocchio.

The puppet leaps into the water and tries to swim to Geppetto, but the waves are too rough and Pinocchio is washed underwater as Geppetto is swallowed by a terrible shark.

A kindly dolphin gives Pinocchio a ride to the nearest island, which is the Island of Busy Bees.

Everyone is working and no one will give Pinocchio any food as long as he will not help them.

The man says Eugene is fine, but that Pinocchio must be a truant.

The snail brings Pinocchio artificial food and the marionette faints.

Pinocchio explains that the fish ate all the donkey skin off of him and he is now a marionette again.

The story of Pinocchio and its Disney adaptation ( Pinocchio ), which was released in 1940, is a story about a marionette.

In feature films, among the characters and scenes Thomas animated were the dwarfs crying over Snow White's " dead " body, Pinocchio singing at the marionette theatre, Bambi and Thumper on the ice, Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti, the three fairies in Sleeping Beauty, Merlin and Arthur as squirrels and the " wizard's duel " between Merlin and Madam Mim in The Sword in the Stone ( in which he was paired with animator Milt Kahl to great effect ), King Louie in The Jungle Book ( the song number " I Wan ' na Be Like You " featuring King Louie and Baloo the Bear re-teamed him with Kahl ), the dancing penguins in Mary Poppins, and Winnie The Pooh and Piglet in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too.

* Figaro, Cleo ( Figaro lick Cleo and Cleo going into castle ), French Can-can dancers marionettes and Russian girl marionette, Donkeys ( Pinocchio )

Collodi, who died in 1890, was respected during his lifetime as a talented writer and social commentator, and his fame continued to grow when Pinocchio was first translated into English by Mary Alice Murray in 1892, whose translation was added to the widely-read Everyman's Library in 1911.

Pinocchio heads back to Geppetto's house and encounters The Talking Cricket who has lived in the house for over a century.

As Pinocchio heads home to give the coins to his father, he meets a fox and a cat who convince him that if he plants his coins in the Field of Miracles, outside the city of Catchfools, then they will grow into a tree with a thousand gold coins, or perhaps two thousand.

As he passes through the forest, the disguised Cat and Fox jump out and try to rob Pinocchio, who hides the money in his mouth.

Inside the shark Pinocchio meets a tuna who is resigned to the fate and just says they will have to wait to be digested.

* Harlequin ( Arlecchino ), Punch ( Pulcinella ), and Signora Rosaura: Harlequin, Punch, and Signora Rosaura are puppets at the Theatre who embrace Pinocchio as their brother.

* The Innkeeper ( l ' Oste ): an innkeeper who is in league with Fox and Cat, and tricks Pinocchio into an ambush.

* The Fairy with Turquoise Hair ( la Fata dai Capelli turchini ): the turquoise fairy is the spirit of the forest who rescues Pinocchio and adopts him first as her brother, then as her son.

* the Owl ( la Civetta ) and the Crow ( la Cornacchia ): two famous doctors who diagnose Pinocchio.

* The Green Fisherman ( Il Pescatore Verde ): a green skinned ogre who catches Pinocchio in his fishing net and attempts to eat him

Originally an unnamed, minor character in Collodi's novel, he was transformed in the Disney version into a comical and wise partner who accompanies Pinocchio on his adventures, having been appointed by the Blue Fairy to serve as the official conscience for Pinocchio.

Paul Smith who was born in Calumet, Michigan was a composer named a Disney Legend who worked on many Disney films and animations including Snow White, Pinocchio and Bambi.

Pinocchio, who is being chased by The Fox and the Cat ( Il Gatto e la Volpe ), pleads with the Fairy to allow him entrance.

It is revealed in chapter XXXVI that she gives a house to the Talking Cricket, who offers to accommodate both Pinocchio and the sickly Gepetto.

It is she who brings Pinocchio to life, and she is much less involved in his upbringing than she is in the book, having appointed Jiminy Cricket as Pinocchio's conscience.

After the defeat of the Emperor she restores Pinocchio, brings back Geppetto's jewel box which had been stolen earlier, and brings Twinkle, a girl who had been turned into a puppet, back to life.

For example there was a scene in which Mickey took the cow to market where he meets Honest John and Gideon from Pinocchio who con him into trading his cow for the " magic beans ".

* Cleo, an animated goldfish who first appeared in Pinocchio

A variant of this theme can also be seen in the story of Pinocchio, in which a wooden puppet is transformed into a real boy, though in this case the puppet possesses sentience prior to its transformation ; it is the puppet and not its creator, the woodcarver Mister Geppetto, who beseeches the miracle.

When Swash was seven, he made his first TV appearance in an Andrex advertisement, and at the age of eleven he was cast in the movie The Adventures of Pinocchio, as The Fighting boy with Dawn French and Griff Rhys Jones and also co starring along side Jonathan Taylor Thomas Richard Claxton and Correy Carrier his character in it was a small part being one the boys who gets turned into a donkey from going on a Roller Coaster his character is known as Fighting Boy because he gets into a fight with Lampwick over a gun.